Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
APL, I believe, can only be learned by writing one-liners–only by seeing in a sense, what you can compress into a line.
Alan J Perlis
The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan J. Perlis
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code.
Anonymous
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
Though the Chinese should adore APL, it's FORTRAN they put their money on.
Alan J. Perlis
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay